CSEE Archived News
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Prof. Cynthia Matuszek on how robots could help bridge the elder-care gap
Robots can also lend a hand of sorts. Photographee.eu/Shutterstock.com How robots could help bridge the elder-care gap Cynthia Matuszek, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Despite innovations that make it easier for seniors to keep living on their own rather than moving into special facilities, most elderly people eventually need a hand with chores and…
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Prof. Gymama Slaughter to develop bioreactors for life-saving organ transplants
UMBC’s Gymama Slaughter to develop bioreactors that could pause the clock for life-saving organ transplants UMBC’s Gymama Slaughter will develop a bioreactor to extend the viability of lifesaving human organs as they await transplant through a major new grant from the U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command. Funding for the project totals nearly…
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Data Science MD @ UMBC: Streaming with Heron on Mesos/Aurora Stack, Wed 8/30
This month’s meeting of the Data Science MD Meetup will be held at UMBC’s Technology Center at 6:30-8:45pm on Wednesday, 30 August 2017. The meeting will provide an overview of Heron, a realtime, distributed, fault-tolerant stream processing engine developed by Twitter (and transitioning to Apache) that is fully compatible with Apache Storm. At the meeting,…
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PhD defense: Prajit Das, Context-dependent privacy and security management on mobile devices
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense Context-dependent privacy and security management on mobile devices Prajit Kumar Das 8:00-11:00am Tuesday, 22 August 2017, ITE325b, UMBC There are ongoing security and privacy concerns regarding mobile platforms which are being used by a growing number of citizens. Security and privacy models typically used by mobile platforms use one-time permission acquisition mechanisms.…
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PhD Defense: Bryan Wilkinson, Identifying and Ordering Scalar Adjectives using Lexical Substitution
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense Identifying and Ordering Scalar Adjectives using Lexical Substitution Bryan Wilkinson 1:00pm Friday, 18 August 2017, ITE 325b, UMBC Lexical semantics provides many important resources in natural language processing, despite the recent preferences for distributional methods. In this dissertation we investigate an under-represented lexical relationship, that of scalarity. We define sclarity as it…
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talk: Sarit Kraus on Computer Agents that Interact Proficiently with People, Noon Fri 8/4
Computer Agents that Interact Proficiently with People Prof. Sarit Kraus Deptartment of Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University Ramat-Gan, 52900 Israel 12:00-1:00pm Friday, 4 August 2017, ITE ITE 217B, UMBC Automated agents that interact proficiently with people can be useful in supporting, training or replacing people in complex tasks. The inclusion of people presents novel problems…
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Baltimore Sun highlights UMBC programs that prepare students for high-demand careers
Baltimore Sun highlights UMBC programs that prepare students for high-demand careers The latest special section on education in The Baltimore Sun highlights several UMBC programs that prepare students to succeed in careers in rapidly growing and already high-demand industries. The Sun highlights how the flexibility of these programs makes them particularly accessible and…
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UMBC PhD candidate Kavita Krishnaswamy gets Google & Microsoft awards for robotics research
UMBC Ph.D. candidate Kavita Krishnaswamy receives Google and Microsoft awards for robotics research Kavita Krishnaswamy ’07, computer science and mathematics, Ph.D. ’18, computer science, has been named both a 2017 Microsoft Fellow and recipient of the Google Lime Scholarship. These prestigious honors recognize emerging scholars in computing who are dedicated to increasing diversity…
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UMBC’s Prof. Cynthia Matuszek receives NSF award for robot language acquisition
Professor Cynthia Matuszek has received a research award from the National Science Foundation to improve human-robot interactions by enabling them to understand the world from natural language in order to take instructions and learn about their environment naturally and intuitively. The two-year award, Joint Models of Language and Context for Robotic Language Acquisition, will support…
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PhD Defense: The Lightweight Virtual File System
Dissertation Defense The Lightweight Virtual File System Navid Golpayegani 10:00-12:00 Thursday, 20 July 2017, ITE 325, UMBC A data center today is responsible for safely managing big data volumes and balancing the complex needs between data producers and consumers. This balance often involves reconciling the needs of easy access and rapid retrieval in ways…
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